Vocabulary Development for
Local UseA DIY Introduction
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Why Local Vocabularies?
O Better recognition of the need for local services
O Increased understanding of the limits of shared centralized vocabularies
O Movement of responsibility from central node to decentralized control
O Availability of tools to develop and maintain local vocabularies (and vocabulary extensions)
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Where to StartO Determining need and scopeO Learning the basics of vocabulary
development and maintenanceO Building local expertise and
documentationO Evaluating tools
O http://www.asindexing.org/about-indexing/thesauri/thesaurus-management-software/ Many have costs; vary in sophistication
O http://metadataregistry.org/ Free, oriented towards librariesO Determining maintenance and
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Open Metadata Registry (OMR) Disclosure:
I’ve been involved in this project for over a decade. I’m not selling anything: it’s free and open to anyone
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OMR ServicesO Simple development, publishing and
maintenance of element and concept vocabulariesO Use the OMR domain (
http://metadataregistry.org) for URIs or your own
O Apply statuses for review periods, to build a community to manage and maintain
O Make published vocabularies available in a variety of formats 6/24/16
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Ex.: Langsdale Game Genre Headings“Descriptors for games in the collection of Langsdale Library, University of Baltimore. The descriptors are entered into the library's catalog records, indexed as subjects. They are tagged in the MARC records in OCLC as 655 _7, $2 local, $5 MdBU. The library's catalog is available at http://ubalt.worldcat.org/. Work in progress.”
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Ex.: Museo Reina Sofia
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Ex.: National Library of Scotland
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Simple StepsO Go to http://metadataregistry.org
O Figure out what you want to do! (properties or concepts?)
O Register yourself and any group you wish to associate with your vocabulary
O Name and describe your vocabularyO Establish your base URIO Add properties or conceptsO Fill in definitions and other info
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What You GetO Ability to point others to your work,
and get comments and suggestionsO Pay attention to status—’new—under
review’ implies not ready for prime time; ‘published’ says it’s ready for immediate use
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Just Experimenting?O Try
http://sandbox.metadataregistry.org O Caveats: might disappear, can’t yet
be ported to the production fileO Same steps, fewer services
O Instructions available on siteO Be aware things are changing as we
upgrade software and services
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Contact Information
Diane [email protected]
Links: http://RDARegistry.info
http://managemetadata.com/blog/
The First MetadataMobile(now driving MetadataMobile 3.0) Vocabulary Development for Local
Use6/24/16